Frap Tools Fumana Part 5: Take It Slow

video upload by Cylob Sonic Research

"Recording the output of the envelope followers analysing speech, then playing this back at a much slower rate modulating a three tone drone, then drenching that in reverb.
00:00 Intro
00:03 Source material
00:25 Recording the band analysis output
00:40 Playback
01:36 Adding reverb
07:32 Freezing playback
09:29 Reversing playback direction
20:45 Changing reverb algorithm

Eurorack modules featured: Frap Tools Fumana, Intellijel Dixie, Cre8 Audio Capt'n BIG-O, Tiptop Audio Z3000 mk.2, Doepfer A-138b mixer. Reverb: Valhalla VintageVerb. CV Control: Expert Sleepers ES3 and ES6 controlled by a custom SuperCollider patch.

Original photo of snail by invisiblepower @ pexels"

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Tiptop Z DSP feedback

video upload by Todd Barton

"A simple feedback patch to listen to what is inside the various reverb algorithms of the Halls of Valhalla card for the Tiptop Audio D-ZSP Digital Signal Processor. Of course you are just hearing the same Decay/Tone/Chorus knobs setting for each iteration. So much more possible by playing the knobs. And, of course, more various sonic universes with the other cards.
Enjoy!

My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

Tiptop Audio Buchla 266t Source Of Uncertainty, Black Z-DSP & New Card Bundles

via Tiptop Audio

"Today we are officially releasing Buchla and Tiptop Audio Model 266t Source Of Uncertainty which will start shipping to our dealers this week. This is one of those moments with a sense of accomplishment from making a wonderful module Don Buchla created in 1976 available again nearly half a century later, and also producing it in large enough numbers that it gets into everyone’s hands.

Price is $299 and pre-orders should be open at your favorite retailers now. The User manual is uploaded on the website, please check it out, this is a complex module with plenty of unique functions!"

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Buchla 252e Polyrythmic Delays

video upload by Kent

"This is a tough one to write up and summarize. It certainly evolved into something rather different than intended.
The primary reason being that the 252e and/or 251e lost their programming twice! Twice for the 252e (the core of the show) and once for the 251e.
I’ve never had the Atmel products lose their minds like this before. I think that they are rather sensitive to low voltage conditions (brown outs) as they power up as this when they lost their minds. The currently loading preset gets scrambled or wiped. As can be see in the short ancillary video below, the 252e became unresponsive.
That’s two trips to the 10-panel case in order to be reflashed with firmware and three runs at programming the damn thing.

I was so exasperated that I nearly pulled everything so that I could start on the other 3 ideas that I wish to explore and execute. I did promise myself that I would endeavor to be less concerned with perfection and be more concerned with simply getting anything of interest out into the world. It doesn’t have to be novel. It doesn’t have to be world-changing. It just needs to get out there if there is even anything 51% interesting in the recording; I do have some standards after all!
I brewed up a double espresso and hit ‘record’.

It started as an E Minor progression with evolution to… Fuck if I know anymore. That stuff got deleted. I eventually threw in some Whole Tone stuff (especially noticeable toward the end) and smashed it all together in gobs of delay via new toys from X1L3: a Shard, an Underwurlde (messed up delay), and a circuit bent and high augmented with Korg MS20-ish circuits (plus a delay) drum machine that used to be a Yamaha DD-7. It is now a rather more interesting and useful X1L3 DDX.

Basically,
the BLUE rings on the 252e went to the upper macro oscillator of the 1979 DAO
The GREEN rings to the lower part of the DAO (ratcheted bell sounds)
Both using their internal VCAs, which I also used to modulate “Color” & “Timbre” at times.
Both voices went into the Analogue Systems RS-290 delay. The Blue voice also went, in parallel, to the Underwurlde which then went to the 290. It’s a cheat for keeping delay nonsense in synch even though the Underwurlde was hand synced to tempo.
RED rings were the 259e into a 292e LPG. Lots going on there and the Pendulum/Ratchet was acting as a burst generator. I was using the 251e for that but didn’t want program that again.

Studio.h

CSR doing its scaling job plus attenuation of audio signals along with manual muting of both audio and gates/triggers. Love it.
254e was being controlled by the Buchla 266e to quasi-randomly filter out some of the drum rolls/fills for the Green ring. It also had a manual Gate voltage connected to it so that I could inject tones into the X1L3 Shard.

Northern Light Modular 2TT
Taking the clock from a channel of the 251e and distributing it, mangling it, and doing its thing. All Eurorack connects to this as well.

X1L3 (pronounced “Exile”) DDX:
It provided percussion in 3/4 via Malekko Varigate 4. I also played it manually at times. It ran into the TipTop Áudio Z-DSP with the Valhalla “Shimmer” card but set to program #8 for pitched echo.

https://x1l3.bigcartel.com

Lots of Eurorack. Some mentioned specifically at the end of the video. I left out a lot as I wanted to get this video posted. Best Supporting Cast:
2x Folktek Matters. All Even Beat Count percussion.
Tyme Sefaris Mk1 & Mk2… Connected to Matters
Audio Damage (I know, right?!) Grainshifter on one of the Matters.
Lots of Eurorack sequencing.
As I look back on what was used, much of the processing was changed due to reprogramming things. All compression pulled and I just mixed it ‘live’ without multi-tracking.

Time to tear this patch down!"

Endorphin.es Furthrrrr Generator Buchla Panel

via this auction

Note this is a supporting member, post. The seller has a ton of other modules listed as well.

Here are the direct links:

Tiptop Audio Z-DSP

2nd Tiptop Audio Z-DSP

Tiptop Audio Z-DSP Halls Of Valhalla DSP Card

Tiptop Audio Z-DSP Time Domain Cards

Tiptop Audio Z-DSP Chorus card

Intellijel Mutamix V2

Industrial Music Electronics Argos Bleak

Analogue Systems Rs100s Lowpass Filter

Intellijel Cylonix Cyclebox II

Hexinverter Mutant Hihats

The Harvestman Hertz Donut MkI

The Harvestman Lider Suboctave

And one pic for each:

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1010music bitbox + Tiptop Audio Z-DSP Valhalla Shimmer

Published on Mar 8, 2020 TinySymphony Music & Synthesizers

Voice Sample : Aoki Lapis

Gone In A Day

Published on Mar 7, 2020 davidryle

"I had some fun with INSTRUo Harmonaig and a few select 5U modules.

The modulation to the Harmonaig (Inversion and Voicing) was with a pair of STG Soundlabs Voltage Mini Store modules.

The main transpose sequence was from a Mini Sequencer built by Synthetic Sound Labs.

The pattern gate selection and VMS stepping were done with the STG Time Divider.

Some magic mojo was stirred in with the selection of dotted notes against straight notes. The Trigger Sequencer was the Moon Modular 563. It sent gate timings to the four voices run through the SSL Octal VCA and AD/AR Expander.

The four oscillators were a Mos Lab 901 bank, DDVCO, SSL 1200 and Q106.

Filters included Yusynth Arp 4072, Dotcom Q107 in high pass mode and Mos Lab 904-A.

The final reverb is the Z-DSP from TipTop Audio with a 'Halls of Valhalla' card."

TB-303 Acid Ambient Eurorack Modular Synthesizer | Happy 303 Day

Published on Mar 2, 2020 sworn64

"Roland TB-303 through an MXR Distortion+ pedal, synced to the System80 880. Moog DFAM on the ambient, noise percussion. Main lead synth is the Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas through a Make Noise Mimeophon. Melody is created from clocked stepped random of a Make Noise Wogglbug with occasional voltage sweeps mixed in from a cycling Maths, all quantized by an Intellijel Scales. Super saw chord pad is an Acid Rain Technology Chainsaw filtered in stereo by a System80 Jove and 860.

Xaoc Devices Batumi is sending various LFO modulations throughout the patch to make it ebb and flow. Delay on the 303 from the 4ms Dual Looping Delay. Reverb is the Halls of Valhalla on the Tiptop Audio Z-DSP. Mix is through the WMD Performance mixer.

Did you celebrate 303 day? Have you ever made ambient music with an acid bassline? Let me know in the comments.

#tb303 #eurorack #acidbassline"

ROLAND Tr909 DrumMachine Techno Clap in Eventide H910 Harmonizer

Published on Jul 6, 2019 Sound Provider

"For this quick exemple I did a quick Techno loops and put a clap from a Roland Tr-909 Drum machine through an Eurorack Tiptop Audio z-dsp with halls of Valhalla reverb card them I put it through my Wonderful Eventide H910 Harmonizer.
The Eventide H910 Harmonizer was developed by Eventide in 1974. The H910 was the world’s first commercially available digital audio effects device. It combined ‘de-glitched’ pitch change with delay and feedback.
I record everything with Roland Go:mixer pro and the lever was little too hot, so sorry for the little distortion."

Tiptop Audio ZDSP with Halls of Valhalla, Dragonfly MKII & Shimmer

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via this auction

"Tiptop Audio’s Z-DSP is a cartridge-based open source digital sound processing and effects generating platform for your modular synthesizer. Lush audio processing, greater stereo depth and a unique set of digital synthesis is what the Z-DSP is all about."

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Konstantin Gervis - Live @ Hunter's Grand Cafe, Amsterdam

Published on Jan 6, 2019 Station 252

"Recorded live on 29.12.2018 during the last Modular Moon party in 2018. This is a 100% improvised performance using 100% eurorack modular gear:
Tiptop Audio modules: almost all the drum modules, MixZ, Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot, 2x Z3000, 5x Forbidden Planet, 4x Z2040, Z8000, 2x Z-DSP with EchoZ and Halls Of Valhalla, 3x ONE, 1x TG ONE, 2x VCA, 5x Z4000.
As well as: Serge ResEQ, Variable Slope VCF and Variable Q VCF. Future Sound Systems Gristleizer TG3 and TG4, Vermona VcDrive, Antimatter Launch Codes and Doepfer A-124 Wasp Filter."

ZV_K WINTER REHEARSALS 3

Published on Dec 10, 2018 Station 252

"system: Tiptop Audio 909 and 808 Drum modules, ONE sample players, Z2040 and Forbidden Planet filters, VCAs, Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot and Z8000 sequencers, Z4000 envelopes, Z-DSP FX processors (Valhalla and EchoZ), Z3000 oscillator. Toppobrillo Multifilter, Doepfer A-124 Wasp Filter, Antimatter Audio Launch Codes sequencer, RS Serge ResEQ, Vermona VcDrive, Roland Demora and Scooper. nw2s output modules. Mackie 1604 mixer."

ZV_K WINTER REHEARSALS 2

Published on Dec 7, 2018 Station 252

"system: Tiptop Audio 909 and 808 Drum modules, ONE sample players, Z2040 and Forbidden Planet filters, VCAs, Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot and Z8000 sequencers, Z4000 envelopes, Z-DSP FX processors (Valhalla and EchoZ), Z3000 oscillator. Toppobrillo Multifilter, Doepfer A-124 Wasp Filter, Antimatter Audio Launch Codes sequencer, RS Serge ResEQ, Vermona VcDrive, Roland Demora and Scooper. nw2s output modules. Mackie 1604 mixer."

ZV_K WINTER REHEARSALS

Published on Dec 5, 2018 Station 252

"system: Tiptop Audio 909 and 808 Drum modules, ONE sample players, Z2040 and Forbidden Planet filters, VCAs, Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot and Z8000 sequencers, Z4000 envelopes, Z-DSP FX processors (Valhalla and EchoZ), Z3000 oscillator. Toppobrillo Multifilter, Doepfer A-124 Wasp Filter, Antimatter Audio Launch Codes sequencer, RS Serge ResEQ, Vermona VcDrive, Roland Demora and Scooper. nw2s output modules. Mackie 1604 mixer."

FORBIDDEN DUB 2

FORBIDDEN DUB 2 from Station 252 on Vimeo.

"BD909 -> Vermona VcDrive -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Tiptop Audio Z2040 (Low Pass)

MA808, ONE with a HH sample going through a VCA (for accents) -> Roland Demora

Tiptop ONE (one shot DOTS sample pitch sequenced from Z8000, gates from Trigger Riot) -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Z2040 -> R*S Serge ResEQ

Tiptop ONE (V-Hause Chord sample) -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Z2040 (Lo-Pass)

TG ONE (playing Glitchmachines sample) -> Doepfer Wasp filter (High Pass)

MA808 noise source -> Toppobrillo High Pass -> VCA

Modulation sources: 3x Z4000 VC ADSR envelopes, Z3000 oscillator (LFO speed)

Sequenced with Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot, Z8000 and Launch Codes.

Send FX: Z-DSP (Halls Of Valhalla - Cathedral), Z-DSP (Tape Delay)

http://tiptopaudio.com/forbidden-planet-analog-filter/"

FORBIDDEN DUB

FORBIDDEN DUB from Station 252 on Vimeo.

"BD909, Mid and Low Tom 909 -> Vermona VcDrive -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Tiptop Audio Z2040 (Low Pass)

Hats909, MA808, ONE with a HH sample going through a VCA (for accents) -> Roland Demora

Tiptop ONE (one shot DOTS sample pitch sequenced from Z8000, gates from Trigger Riot) -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Z2040 -> R*S Serge ResEQ

Tiptop ONE (V-Hause Chord sample) -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Z2040 (Lo-Pass)

TG ONE (playing Glitchmachines sample) -> Doepfer Wasp filter (High Pass)

MA808 noise source -> Toppobrillo High Pass -> VCA

Modulation sources: 3x Z4000 VC ADSR envelopes, Z3000 oscillator (LFO speed)

Sequenced with Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot, Z8000 and Launch Codes.

Send FX: Z-DSP (Halls Of Valhalla - Chamber), Z-DSP (Tape Delay)"

TIPTOP AUDIO FORBIDDEN PLANET WORKOUT - DAY 3

TIPTOP AUDIO FORBIDDEN PLANET WORKOUT - DAY 3 from Station 252 on Vimeo.

"Time to try how our 2 systems sound together.

On the left: (mostly) Tiptop Audio system with freshly installed 3 forbidden planet multi mode filters on Hi-Pass duties.

BD808

SD808, RS808 -> Vermona VcDrive -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Tiptop Audio Z2040 (Low Pass)

Hats909, MA808, ONE with a HH sample going through a VCA (for accents) -> Roland Demora

Tiptop ONE (one shot DOTS sample pitch sequenced from Z8000, gates from Trigger Riot) -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Z2040 -> R*S Serge ResEQ

Tiptop ONE (V-Hause Chord) -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Z2040 (Lo-Pass)

TG ONE (playing Glitchmachines sample) -> Doepfer Wasp filter (High Pass)

Modulation sources: 3x Z4000 VC ADSR envelopes, Z3000 oscillator (LFO speed)

Sequenced with Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot and Z8000

On the right: A Verbos core in a mixed system

Voice A: Complex Oscillator -> ATC -> Verbos Multi-Delay Processor. Modulated by Math. Sequenced with Voltage Multistage

Voice B: Harmonic Oscillator -> Serge Variable Slope VCF (hi-pass) -> Tiptop Z2040 (lo-pass). Harmonics sequenced with Circadian Rhythms and Doepfer Quad Decay.

Send FX: Z-DSP (Halls Of Valhalla - Chamber), Z-DSP (Tape Delay)"

TIPTOP AUDIO FORBIDDEN PLANET WORKOUT - DAY 2

TIPTOP AUDIO FORBIDDEN PLANET WORKOUT - DAY 2 from Station 252 on Vimeo.

"Rehearsal with my (mostly) Tiptop Audio eurorack system with freshly installed 3 forbidden planet multimode filters on Hi-Pass duties.

In this Video:

BD909, Mid Tom 909, RS808 -> Vermona VcDrive -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Tiptop Audio Z2040 (Low Pass)

Hats909, MA808, ONE with a HH sample going through a VCA (for accents) -> Roland Demora

Tiptop ONE (one shot DOTS sample pitch sequenced from Z8000, gates from Trigger Riot) -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Z2040 -> R*S Serge ResEQ

Tiptop ONE (V-Hause Chord) -> Forbidden Planet (Hi-Pass) -> Z2040 (Lo-Pass)

TG ONE (playing Glitchmachines sample) -> Doepfer Wasp filter (High Pass)

MA808 noise source -> Toppobrillo High Pass -> VCA

Modulation sources: 3x Z4000 VC ADSR envelopes, Z3000 oscillator (LFO speed)

Sequenced with Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot, Z8000 and Launch Codes.

Send FX: Z-DSP (Halls Of Valhalla - Plate), Z-DSP (Tape Delay)"

I really need two more Forbidden Planets

I really need two more Forbidden Planets from Station 252 on Vimeo.

"I re-organized my live system to integrate the 3 three Tiptop Audio Forbidden Planet filters into it, All 3 are in High Pass mode and are replacing some other filter I had. Why? because Forbidden Plant's High Pass filter sounds absolutely great on anything I put through it. The only problem now is I need two more as I have 5 high pass and 3 low pass filters in the current patch.

In this Video:

BD808

Low Tom 909, SD808, RS808 -> Vermona VcDrive -> Toppobrillo High Pass -> Tiptop Audio Z2040 Low Pass

Hats909, MA808, Ride Cymbal 909, ONE with a HH sample gong through a VCA (for accents) -> Roland Demora

Tiptop ONE (one shot DOTS sample pitch sequenced from Z8000, gates from Trigger Riot) -> Forbidden Planet -> Z2040 -> R*S Serge ResEQ

Tiptop ONE (V-Hause Chord) -> Forbidden Planet -> Z2040

TG ONE (playing Glitchmachines sample) -> Doepfer Wasp filter (High Pass)

MA808 noise source -> Forbidden Planet -> VCA

Modulation sources: 3x Z4000 VC ADSR envelopes, Z3000 oscillator (LFO speed)

Sequenced with Circadian Rhythms, Trigger Riot, Z8000 and Launch Codes.

Send FX: Z-DSP (Halls Of Valhalla - Plate), Z-DSP (Tape Delay)"

Tiptop Audio: Forbidden Planet and Z2040 filtering BD909 and SNR808

Tiptop Audio: Forbidden Planet and Z2040 filtering BD909 and SNR808 from Station 252 on Vimeo.

"One of the reasons I love my modular drum machine is the flexible processing of individual and grouped sounds. In this video I'm testing the Forbidden Planet / Z2040 dual filer configuration for my non metallic drum sounds.

Drums -> Forbidden Planet Hi-Pass -> Z2040 Low-Pass.

FX: 2x Z-DSP loaded with Plate (Halls Of Valhalla) and Delay

also in the mix: Tiptop Hats909 and a white noise off MA808 filtered through another Forbidden Planet.

Sequenced with Circadian Rhythms and Trigger Riot."